EU AI Act training for Irish organisations
AI training your staff will actually use, and a record your board can point to.
A live workshop built around the tools your team already has open. Staff leave able to use them safely in their own jobs.
Our trainers have delivered training to
If your team uses AI at work, this applies to you.
Article 4 of the EU AI Act binds every provider and deployer of AI systems, whatever the industry, and Ireland's sectoral regulators have supervised it since 2 August 2026.
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Everyday AI tools
Staff using ChatGPT or similar to write, summarise or translate put you in scope, on the Commission's own example.
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AI inside software you already bought
HR, recruitment, finance and customer service platforms ship AI features by default, and you are a deployer whether or not you chose them.
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Customer-facing AI
Chatbots, deepfakes and some AI-generated content carry separate disclosure duties under Article 50, which does carry fines.
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Contractors and agencies
People who use AI on your behalf but are not on your payroll are covered by the same measures as your employees.
One in five Irish enterprises used AI in 2025. Only two in five Irish workers say they have had enough training to use it.
- 20.2%
- of Irish enterprises used AI in 2025, up from 8.1% in 2023. CSO, Information Society Statistics: Enterprises 2025
- 40%
- of Irish workers say they have received enough AI training or guidance. 63% use AI tools at work. Microsoft Ireland Work Trend Index, September 2026, survey of 1,000 workers
Your whole team covered in one afternoon.
Delivered live, online or in person in Ireland. Priced for your team rather than per seat, and every tier leaves you with a written record.
Full tier detailsHalf day
3.5 hours. From €2,250 ex VAT, flat rate for up to 25 people. In person from County Louth; travel outside the county at cost.
A first, proportionate measure for everyone who uses an AI tool, with the record to show it.
- Live session, online or in person
- Inventory of the AI tools you use
- Signed, dated training record with attendance log
Full day
6 hours. Quoted on your call
Teams where some people configure or oversee AI.
- Everything in the half day
- Deeper sessions for the people who configure or oversee AI
- A draft AI acceptable-use policy
Two day
2 days. Quoted on your call
Organisations that want governance in place as well as training.
- Everything in the full day
- Day two for managers and oversight leads
- Policy signed off and a review cadence agreed
Follow-up session
90 minutes. Quoted on your call
An add-on for teams that have run a workshop and want the record kept current.
- What has changed since the workshop
- Catch-up for new hires
- A fresh dated entry in the same record
What your team does in the room.
The record is what you keep. This is what your staff get.
They leave able to
- Say which of the tools they use are AI systems, and what the Act asks of them as a result.
- Check an AI output before it goes anywhere, and know when not to rely on one.
- Spot when a tool is scoring, ranking or screening a person, and who to tell.
- Use the tools they already have for the work in front of them, inside your policy.
Sessions are built around the tools your people actually have open: live exercises on them, scenarios drawn from attendees' roles, and a pace that keeps everyone working rather than watching.
25 places on a comparable open course cost around €11,250 at the median published price. One half day covers the same 25 people for €2,250.
How we worked this out
- €450 a head is the median published non-member price for live half-day to one-day AI courses from Irish providers, including IoD Ireland, the IPA and AI Ireland. The range was €370 to €495 when we checked on 22 September 2026. Member rates and Skillnet-subsidised places can be lower.
- Our €2,250 excludes VAT. Most of the per-seat prices we checked do not say whether VAT is included.
- Neither figure counts staff time. Break-even is five people, and at ten attendees the half day works out at €225 a head.
- Self-paced e-learning costs less than either, from about €40 a head. It has no live discussion and no calibration to your tools and roles.
If anyone asks, you can show them.
Since the July 2026 amendment, Article 4 asks you to take measures that support your team's AI literacy. What gets looked at is what your organisation did, and the record is how you show it. Every workshop leaves you with one.
- A dated PDF, signed by the trainer who delivered the session, sent to your named contact within five working days, yours to keep.
- Online sessions use registered links, so attendance is logged with names and time attended, not self-reported.
- Follow-ups and new hires add dated entries to the same record over time.
- Contractors and agency staff can be included in the same record. See who the duty covers.
- We do not test or score attendees, record the session, or monitor anyone beyond the session itself. Article 4 asks for none of it.
Three trainers, not a platform.
Danny McCabe
QQI Level 6 in Training Delivery and Evaluation, over 600 professionals trained, and a web studio that uses AI every day. Leads online delivery.
Padraig McCabe
Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt, former CEO, 39 years of executive training in 58 countries. Leads in-person delivery in Ireland.
John Leech
25 years in eCommerce, formerly eCommerce and Web Director at Lenovo International, now advising on AI adoption. Delivers in person alongside Padraig.
The law, in short.
Both pages list their sources and the date they were checked.
What it asks
Take measures that support your team's AI literacy, and keep a record of what you did. No certificate is required and nobody has to be tested. What gets looked at is the record.
What the law asksWhat happens if you ignore it
Article 4 carries no fine of its own. The exposure sits in Irish law around it: directors' duties, GDPR, Central Bank conduct standards and the Article 50 transparency rules, which do carry fines.
If you ignore it
Sectors we train.
Article 4 does not single out an industry. These are the organisations that most often find AI already inside their tools and their teams.
Recruitment and HR
Screening tools, applicant tracking and HR platforms that rank or filter people.
Financial services
Credit decisions, fraud checks and customer service assistants inside regulated workflows.
Healthcare and pharma
Clinical documentation, summarisation and research tools used by staff every day.
Legal and professional services
Drafting, review and research assistants handling confidential client material.
Public sector and education
Generative tools in administration, teaching and citizen-facing communication.
Marketing and agencies
AI-generated copy and imagery, some of which carries Article 50 disclosure duties.
Customer service and retail
Chatbots, ticket triage and personalisation engines that talk to your customers.
Manufacturing and supply chain
Quality inspection, forecasting and scheduling systems that ship with AI by default.
Credit unions
Scoring features in lending, member data in chatbots, and volunteers who count the same as staff.
Latest insights.
Plain answers on Article 4, checked against the Commission's published guidance and signed off by the trainers who deliver it.
Governance
How often should AI literacy training be refreshed?
The law sets no interval. Refresh when something material changes: a new tool enters use, people change role, or the rules move, as they did in July 2026. In practice that means a short inventory review every six to twelve months and a follow-up session when it finds a gap.
Governance
Is copying a practice from the Commission's living repository enough to comply with Article 4?
No. The Commission states that replicating the practices in its living repository does not automatically grant presumption of compliance with Article 4. It is a source of ideas; the duty is still to calibrate measures to your own systems and people and to record that judgement.
Training
How long should AI literacy training take?
There is no legal minimum. A baseline for people who use AI tools takes about half a day when it is built on your own tool inventory, and people who configure or oversee AI need a second session of role-specific depth. Length matters less than whether it named your tools.
Questions we get asked.
Does Article 4 of the EU AI Act apply to my organisation?
If your staff use any AI system at work, including ChatGPT or AI features inside software you already own, you are a deployer and Article 4 applies. The European Commission's Q&A gives the example of a company whose employees use ChatGPT to write advertising text or translate, and says yes.
Do we need a certificate to comply with Article 4?
No. The Commission's Q&A says there is no need for a certificate, and that organisations can keep an internal record of trainings and other guiding initiatives. Every Karv Training workshop leaves you with that record. We also give each attendee an individual Certificate of Attendance, which can be checked at karvtraining.com/verify, but it acknowledges attendance only and points back to the record. The organisational record is what counts under Article 4.
Do we have to test our employees on AI?
No. The Commission's Q&A says Article 4 does not entail an obligation to measure the knowledge of AI of employees. Since 27 July 2026 the article also states that you are not required to guarantee any specific level of AI literacy of any individual.
When did enforcement of Article 4 start in Ireland?
Article 4 has applied since 2 February 2025. Supervision and enforcement rules have applied since 2 August 2026. In Ireland, existing sectoral regulators act as market surveillance authorities under the Regulation of Artificial Intelligence Act 2026, coordinated by the AI Office of Ireland.
What does a Karv Training workshop leave us with?
A written training record with the five things the Commission's guidance points to: your tool inventory, what was covered, who attended and when, why that depth suited those roles, and a recommended review date. Every tier delivers all five. Longer tiers add the inventory mapped to risk, a draft or signed-off AI acceptable-use policy, and an agreed review cadence.
What about high-risk AI systems?
Article 4 applies now. Deployers of high-risk systems, such as AI that scores creditworthiness or screens candidates, have a separate human oversight duty under Article 26, which the Omnibus moved to 2 December 2027. Training for those roles is a deeper engagement we scope on a call.
The high-risk rules in fullIs the training delivered online or in person?
Both. Danny McCabe leads online delivery, and Padraig McCabe and John Leech deliver in person anywhere in Ireland. Every tier is available in either format.
Know in 20 minutes whether you need this.
A short call to work out whether you are in scope, what your team actually uses, and which tier fits. No slides, no pitch deck.
danny@karvtraining.com
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